madeinatlantis LONDON TRAVEL GUIDE The TOWER OF LONDON For this, the most profound experience of your London stay, schedule an entire weekday afternoon-and never, never go on Sunday, when it's badly crowded. Rather, immediately af ter a weekday lunch, enter the London Underground and take a train of the Inner Circle or District lines to the Tower Hill Station, from which, a two-minute walk away, is the fabled Tower of London, on the banks of the Thames. That will plunge you into the turbulent, bloody world of British history, which surrounds you with intense reality as you wander into the stone apartments of Sir Walter Raleigh, his place of imprisonment for twelve years; and see the room in which the Little Princes were smothered; the scaffold site of the execution of kings and queens; and finally, the "Armories" in the important White Tower, in the very center of the tower complex, where the armor of King Henry VIIII is mounted atop a white horse. In the grounds, wander the famous "Beefeaters" (they've heard the gag about the gin hundreds of times) and the ravens with elipped wings, who are the symbols of the tower. Don't allow yourself to be short-changed for time, and don't-again-go on Sunday.		The British Museum Parliament The Tower of London Madame Tussaud's St. Paul's Cathedral Along The Strand Charing Cross Westminster The West-End Parks and Palaces The East-End The Surrey Side The Suburbs RESTAURANTS Restaurants in London The Corner Houses The Lyons Tea Shops The Marble Arch Barbecues The Non-Chain Budget Restaurants HOTELS RUSSELL SQUARE Bernard Street Bedford Place Bloomsbury and Gower Streets Guilford and Coram Streets Tavistock Place Cartwright Gardens HISTORY Roman Britain After the Romans Saxon and Norman Tudor Charles II George II London circa 1700-1815 GREAT BRITAIN The life of Metropolitan England Britain is a world by itself The Climates of Britain The English Plain Great Britain Strategic Geography Great Britain - Ireland Great Britain - Scotland